Worst recent movies ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar

"And the envelope, please ..."

When it comes to this year's Best Picture nominees, Oscar voters have several highly-acclaimed films from which to choose.

But previous years' nominees -- and even some winners -- have actually gotten some not-so-great notices from critics. Here are the 29 worst Best Picture nominees and winners from the past 31 years, as ranked by the review-aggregator Metacritic, in sadly descending order.

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"Hacksaw Ridge" (Metascore: 71)

The 2016 biographical war drama, directed by Mel Gibson, received six Academy Award nominations. The movie starred Andrew Garfield and Teresa Palmer.

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"Good Will Hunting" (Metascore: 70)

Robin Williams won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and Matt Damon shared an Oscar with his co-screenwriter Ben Affleck, for this 1997 drama.

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"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Metascore: 70)

The 2008 fantasy, directed by David Fincher, about a man who ages backwards starred Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton. The movie was nominated for 13 Academy Awards, and won three.

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"Crash" (Metascore: 69)

This 2004 drama, produced, directed, and co-written by Paul Haggis, was nominated for six Academy Awards and won three, including Best Picture.

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"Babel" (Metascore: 69)

This 2006 drama, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and won one.

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"Braveheart" (Metascore: 68)

Mel Gibson's 1995 historical epic was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and won five, including Best Picture and Best Director.

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"Gladiator" (Metascore: 67)

Ridley Scott's 2000 spectacle of ancient Rome, starring Russell Crowe as a general-turned-gladiator, won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

"The Sixth Sense" (Metascore: 64)

"Chocolat" (Metascore: 64)

This 2000 romantic comedy-drama starring Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche was nominated for five Academy Awards.

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"Les Miserables" (Metascore: 63)

The 2012 adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, featuring Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne, was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three.

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"The Help" (Metascore: 62)

This 2011 period drama was nominated for four Academy Awards. Octavia Spencer (pictured, with Jessica Chastain) won for Best Supporting Actress.

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"A Few Good Men" (Metascore: 62)

Rob Reiner's 1992 film of the acclaimed courtroom drama, starring Kevin Pollak, Tom Cruise and Demi Moore (pictured), along with Jack Nicholson and Kevin Bacon, was nominated for four Academy Awards.

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"The Green Mile" (Metascore: 61)

This 1999 prison drama adapted from a Stephen King novel, starring Tom Hanks and Best Supporting Actor nominee Michael Clarke Duncan, was up for four Academy Awards.

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"The Godfather Part III" (Metascore: 60)

The first two films in Francis Ford Coppola's series of the Corleone crime family each won the Oscar for Best Picture, and received a total of 21 nominations.

Coppola's 1990 followup, in which Al Pacino reprised his role as Michael Corleone, was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and Andy Garcia for Best Supporting Actor.

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"Scent of a Woman" (Metascore: 59)

The 1992 drama was nominated for four Academy Awards and won one, for Best Actor Al Pacino.

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"Life Is Beautiful" (Metascore: 59)

Roberto Benigni's 1997 Italian comedy-drama ("La vita è bella") set during the Holocaust was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won three, including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor (Benigni).

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"The Reader" (Metascore: 58)

The 2008 romantic drama set in post-war Germany, starring Kate Winslet and David Kross, was nominated for five Academy Awards. Winslet won for Best Actress.

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"Field of Dreams" (Metascore: 57)

The 1989 sports fantasy, starring Kevin Costner and Burt Lancaster, was nominated for three Academy Awards.

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"The Blind Side" (Metascore: 53)

This 2009 sports film, starring Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron, was nominated for two Academy Awards. Bullock won for Best Actress.

The film's nomination for Best Picture came as a surprise, the result of an expansion of the category from five nominees to 10 following criticism that popular films like "The Dark Knight" and "Wall-E" had been shut out of voting. With more criticism over the "padded" category, the Academy subsequently stiffened their balloting requirements for earning a nomination.

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"The Accidental Tourist" (Metascore: 53)

This 1988 romance was nominated for four Academy Awards. Geena Davis (pictured with William Hurt) won for Best Supporting Actress.

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"Ghost" (Metascore: 52)

This 1990 fantasy thriller, starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, was nominated for five Academy Awards and won two, including Best Supporting Actress Whoopi Goldberg.

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"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" (Metascore: 46)

The film with the lowest Metascore score to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar was this 2011 drama, starring Tom Hanks and Thomas Horn, about a possibly autistic boy who loses his father in the 9/11 attacks. It received two nominations, including Max Von Sydow for Best Supporting Actor.